[PHP-DEV] Re: [RFC] [Discussion] Minimum supported versions for PHP 8.6

On Thu, Jul 2, 2026 at 10:53 AM Eric Norris <eric.t.norris@gmail.com> wrote:

Hey all,

I hope you've been enjoying what appears to be the RFC "busy season".
I've got another RFC following up on an earlier thread about adding
COM_RESET_CONNECTION support to PDO and mysqlnd:

PHP: rfc:min_supported_versions_php_8_6

This proposes a minimum version requirement for autoconf when building
from source, and a minimum version requirement of MySQL 5.7.3 and
MariaDB 10.2.4 when using persistent connections.

- Original thread: php.internals: `COM_RESET_CONNECTION` support in `mysqlnd`
- autoconf PR: Require Autoconf 2.71 or newer by petk · Pull Request #21159 · php/php-src · GitHub
- COM_RESET_CONNECTION PR: feat(mysqlnd): send COM_RESET_CONNECTION in restart_psession by ericnorris · Pull Request #21857 · php/php-src · GitHub
and original issue: Send COM_RESET_CONNECTION in mysqlnd_conn_data::restart_psession · Issue #20225 · php/php-src · GitHub

(Tim, I've not added you as an author since I wasn't sure you'd be
cool with that, but if you'd like I would be more than happy to.)

Thank you,
Eric Norris

I know there are a lot of other RFCs going around, so I'm sending this
intent to vote message at the earliest possible time as permitted by
the RFC policy. I intend to open a vote in 7 days on July 16th,
exactly 14 days after my initial message (and the last changes to the
RFC). Please take a look if you haven't already.

Thanks!